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We all miss the Sun at this time of year, don’t we?  (Unless you’re reading this from Australia, I suppose.)  Luckily for you, this blog post will help you find it! In previous posts we’ve learned how to make and calibrate a planetary equatorium, and how to use it to find the longitude of the planets and Moon.  In my last equatorium post I mentioned latitude for the first time: unlike the planets, the Moon’s latitude matters because medieval astronomers were rather keen to be